The One Thing

How much disagreement should a meeting have? What are the common mistakes made by meeting facilitators? What adjustments will help your online meetings? Michael Lin from Oilstone offers his approach to running better meetings.

Rory Shiner and Murray Campbell explain how they’re slowly beginning to transition their churches back to physical gatherings, but the highlight of this episode is Derek Hanna’s relaunch buzz-words bingo board.

Murray Campbell (Melbourne) reflects on 7 possible church trends emerging from COVID-19.

What are the theological, strategic and circumstance-specific questions to address as you begin to plot your church’s return?

It's pretty clear right now that online training is more important than it's ever been. But let's face it - even when meetings are legal it's hard to get most people to show up. But whether it's now when we can't meet physically, or when isolation begins to lift and we can, we want to be equipping disciples to make disciples, and online training can be a huge part of that.

Lead pastor Adam Ch’ng reflects on why they don’t upload their services online after Sunday and the specific adjustments they’ve made to their zoom rooms.

What do pastors wish they’d done differently in the past 2 months? Paul Webb (lead pastor at Chester Hill Anglican Church) graciously shares 3 areas which he is now changing.

Adjust your expectations for this season. Set yourself up for a great second half of 2020 by caring for yourself now. If you work in a church or ministry, you're likely motivated to work hard for a great cause, and so this season of limitations can be incredibly frustrating.

How does Covid affect church staff meetings? How will you pivot your quarterly offsite? Should you have a daily staff check-ins? What difference does work-from-home make to your weekly church staff meeting? Featuring a guest appearance from Stuart Starr at NewLife Anglican Church.

How can your church love singles during this season? Particularly, what does it mean for church to be a family right now? Dani Treweek from Single Minded Conference joins Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna.

Luther Symons leads a quickly growing church plant in South West Sydney. Listen in on his chat with Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna about how their church is pivoting their mission strategy in this season.

What will it take to see conversions in your church during Covid? Now is the time to create an evangelism plan for the next 6 months. Dave Jensen's new ministry grid course (filmed while in lockdown) explains how to increase your church's contact, connections and conversions during Covid. In this week's episode Scott and Derek expand on Dave's course.

We've just released our latest podcast episode of The One Thing with Al Stewart, looking at how we can preach Easter well - particularly during this season online as churches adapt to the evolving COVID environment.

If Australia was given 48 hours before going into a deeper lock-down like New Zealand, would your church be ready? What are the essential preparations to make? Set up your church to serve your people and the community in a full lock-down scenario.

How much should you cut church budget by? What do the new government initiatives mean for your church? What principles of financial management apply right now? A deeply practical episode on church finances during Coronavirus.

At this stage, better than planning 6 months in advance is to ‘walk like a snail’. Craig Tucker shares his wisdom on the current crisis.

Well done to all the churches who moved to online church for the first time on Sunday. As a complement to (https://bit.ly/2UtPG5L), Derek and Scott reflect on best practice online church. Use this episode to reflect on your own church's online church. SHOWNOTES Sundays Online – First Week Reflections Coronavirus and the Church

Tune in for the 100th episode of The One Thing: Is the Tide Rising on Christianity in Australia.

In today's episode, Derek Hanna talks to Scott Sanders about the importance of building confidence in ministry and in faith in God.

In today's episode, Dan and Teresa Lee from MBM Rooty Hill talk to Scott Sanders about how they do marriage while doing ministry together.

Christine Jolly from Australia Fellowship of Evangelical Students will be talking to Scott and Derek about how to communicate to your supporters well.

In today's episode, Scott and Derek talks to EV Church's Grahame Fuller about the essentials steps to maturing disciples for Christ.

Join Scott and Derek as they talk to Paul Sheely and Neil Auranaune from Fresh Start Presbyterian Church. On today's episode, we will be hearing about Neil's journey in faith and apprenticeship, and Paul's two year plan for his apprentice.

Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna heads down to G8 Conference. They will be talking to Scott Curtis and his ministry apprentice Zac Metcalfe from Hunter Bible Church about creating a culture of traineeships.